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<big><b><u>Assertion:</u></b></big>
<div class="assert">IE6: IE seems to need OPTION elements to be explicitly closed 
for the OPTGROUP element to work correctly. In HTML though, end tags for OPTION 
are, well..."optional", so this just seems to be a bug (Note: in XHTML the 
closing tags are NOT optional.)</div>

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<b>OPTGROUP element with closing tags for OPTION elements:</b>
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<select  name="Familytree">
<option label="Bill" value="bill">Bill Smith </option>
<option label="Mary" value="mary">Mary Smith </option>
<optgroup label="Joe">
    <option value="michael">Michael Smith </option>
    <option value="susan">Susan Smith </option>
    <option value="howard">Howard Smith </option>
</optgroup>
</select>
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<b>OPTGROUP element without closing tags for OPTION elements:</b>
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<select  name="Familytree">
<option label="Bill" value="bill">Bill Smith
<option label="Mary" value="mary">Mary Smith
<optgroup label="Joe">
    <option value="michael">Michael Smith
    <option value="susan">Susan Smith
    <option value="howard">Howard Smith
</optgroup>
</select>
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